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Abstract

I genuinely feel that to explain my work or force some kind of message or meaning onto it is to limit its potential. My work is an attempt to elude explanation. For me, art is not about language or logic, it is about interacting and reacting to one’s surroundings. My work is concerned with confronting and stimulating the viewer while challenging how we interpret and engage the space around us. My goal is to create a fantastic space--a heightened reality where everything is bigger, brighter and more excessive. This is a space in constant flux, a place that crackles with excitement and where the buildup and release of tension is made visible. Art allows me to visualize and bring such a space into being. By making art I am able to project myself and my desires onto my surroundings, thereby manipulating the known world into something different. I am interested in activating all the possibilities of the space that surrounds us, and in making the unseen seen. I do this through my work in sculpture, painting and digital photography. When viewed as a whole, there are many themes and sensibilities that can be found in all of the work such as vibrant color, organic forms, and constant movement and tension. As an artist I view space in regards to its potential to be altered and destabilized and I want to share that vision with the viewer.

I think of this show as a way for me to step outside of myself and really investigate where I’m at and where to go next. The experience of putting this senior show together has made me feel the pressure of displaying myself and my artistic progress. This process has forced me to consider what is most important to my own ethics as an artist. The way I have chosen to present my varied body of work represents both the defensiveness of having to put myself on display, and the pleasure in dominating a space and in being seen.